Moving In, Moving Up, Moving On

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Moving In, Moving Up, Moving On

• Eve Woodberry
• PVC (Academic), UNE

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• Whats in a name?
• Librarian
• Library Technician
• Library Officer
• Information Manager
• Knowledge Manager

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The 13 cm Librarian Action Figure, which
shows a bespectacled woman in a cardigan, long
plain skirt and sensible shoes
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• Skills
• Leadership
• Management
• Budgeting
• Politically astute
• Change managers
• Transferable skills

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• Language of Change
• Information Centre (Griffith)
• Cybrary (UQ)
• Information Commons (1990s)
• Learning Commons (2000s)

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• Academic Library of the Future
• Legacy collections
• Infrastructure space, ICT
• Repositories/ archives digitisation
• Portals access
• Multimedia podcasts, vodcasts
• Business planning
• Public interest services

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• Workforce options
• Broaden the professional base bring in
  professionals while building capacity in staff
• eg space planning, implementing technologies
• Public/Private Partnerships eg digitisation
• Long term - broaden the professional base and
  welcome staff with different skills.

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• Questions?